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Comrades! Having decided to continue our discussion—and I think we have no doubts on this account—I want only to say that it is now about half past eight, and we can work here until half past nine and even later. We need to select the question that interests us most. If a comrade here has indicated that it is the land question, then I must say: let us distribute our time among those questions that represent the greatest significance for you. My role here, as I understand it, is more to listen and take notes. What I wanted to say, I have already said to you at the congress. I am trying to take notes on which province, which district, what complaints are most voiced. I think we need to distribute time in such a way that after the question of labor-transport obligation is finished, we can calculate which other questions seem most essential, so that we might also have time to hear statements about them from various provinces. My role here is to take notes as thoroughly as possible so as to know what has been said here by non-party people. To answer individual questions that are asked here will be very difficult for me in any case, because I cannot give an answer without reference materials, right now, immediately. That is why I propose that we select those questions that are considered most important, and that delegates speak about them from the floor, just as they have spoken about the labor-transport tax, while I will take notes on every statement that is made from the floor.

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